[R-sig-ME] Failure to load lme4 on Mac

[John Maindonald]

This is odd. Around June 27, I installed version lme4_0.999375-34
from R-forge, using:

install.packages("lme4", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

I checked a moment ago, and this still works:

> install.packages("lme4", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
trying URL 'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.11/lme4_0.999375-34.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1281413 bytes (1.2 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1.2 Mb

I have been happily using it.  

I do however have another Mac that I am keeping for my sister,
and on which I have installed R-2.11.1.  When I try the same command
there, I get: 

"
Warning: unable to access index for repository index http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.11
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, available, lib) :
  package 'lme4' is not available.
"

This other R installation is not as fully configured as my main R machine.

For what it is worth (nothing that I can see), here are the two sessionInfo's

Main Machine:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Matrix_0.999375-41 grid_2.11.1        lattice_0.18-8     lme4_0.999375-34  
[5] nlme_3.1-96        stats4_2.11.1     
Warning message:
'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible 

Other machine:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 

locale:
[1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[7] base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.11.1


John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
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On 16/07/2010, at 6:54 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Daniel Ezra Johnson
> <danielezrajohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would appreciate it if the lme4 developers could state whether they
>> plan to ensure that a Mac binary be available at any point in the
>> future (as it does not seem like the problem is going to fix itself).
>> As we see, it is not trivial to compile the package from source on the
>> Mac OS.
> 
> Neither Martin nor I use Mac OS and we can't reproduce the problem on
> other operating systems so we are kind of stuck.
> 
> Apparently it is a matter of one of the tests failing but without
> access to a system that exhibits the failure I wouldn't know where to
> start debugging.  Is some kind person using Mac OS were to download
> and test the package and provide some details about the nature of the
> failure we might be able to get started.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Christopher Desjardins
>> <desja004 at umn.edu> wrote:
>>> Did you see this from Daniel Myall ...
>>> 
>>> .................
>>> Hi Sean,
>>> 
>>> On your Macbook do you have xcode installed? The error "sh: make: command
>>> not found" indicates that this is not the case.
>>> 
>>> The best place to get the latest xcode is http://connect.apple.com/ (The
>>> main Apple site sends you back and forward between two pages for the xcode
>>> download).
>>> ................
>>> 
>>> You need to install Xcode as you don't have the 'make' command.
>>> http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html. Unfortunately
>>> Xcode is about 1 GB in size.
>>> 
>>> Or you could wait for a binary build of lme4 for Mac.
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Sladjana <s-lukic at northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am having the same problem with loading lme4 on Mac.
>>>> Can someone guid me through this, I would really appreciate?
>>>> This is the error message I have been getting:
>>>> * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ...
>>>> ** libs
>>>> *** arch - i386
>>>> sh: make: command not found
>>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
>>>> * removing
>>>> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/lme4’
>>>> 
>>>> The downloaded packages are in
>>>>        ‘/private/var/folders/5i/5ineVodYG08abdx7gchSaE+++TI/-Tmp-
>>>> /Rtmp4Czfel/downloaded_packages’
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Sladjana
>>>> 
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